linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking code into its own file

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Message-ID: <1380124733.3467.61.camel@schen9-DESK>
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:58:53 -0700
From:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and
 locking code into its own file

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 07:55 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:22:46PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> > We will need the MCS lock code for doing optimistic spinning for rwsem.
> > Extracting the MCS code from mutex.c and put into its own file allow us
> > to reuse this code easily for rwsem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/mutex.c |   58 ++++++-------------------------------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 
> Wasn't this patch supposed to add include/linux/mcslock.h ?

Thanks for catching it.  I will correct it.

Tim

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